> Tvrdá Karla, Mgr., Ph.D.

Tvrdá Karla, Mgr., Ph.D.

Areas of research specialization:

lexicology and lexicography, Czech as a foreign language, sociolinguistics, media dialogical networks, phraseology

Education:

2009–2020 Faculty of Arts, Charles University

  • Doctoral studies
  • Field: General Linguistics

2002–2009 Faculty of Arts, Charles University

  • Master’s studies
  • Field: Czech Language and Literature – Sociology

Work experience:

Since 2021 Department of Contemporary Lexicology and Lexicography, Czech Language Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences

  • Member of the authorial team of the Academic Dictionary of Contemporary Czech

Since 2009 CERMAT – Centre for Evaluation of Educational Results

  • External collaborator in the preparation of the Czech language final exam for students who are deaf or hard of hearing

2018–2021 CERMAT – Centre for Evaluation of Educational Results

  • Preparation of Czech language tests for entrance exams to six- and eight-year grammar schools and four-year secondary programs; central evaluator of final written papers

2007–2012 The Language School of the Capital City of Prague with Accreditation for State Language Examinations

  • Teaching Czech as a foreign language

Stays abroad:

  • 2006/2007 ERASMUS program, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy

Publications:

monographs and collective works:

  • Collective of Authors. Academic Dictionary of Contemporary Czech. Prague: Czech Language Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
    • Member of the authorial team: entries starting with d-, ď- (2022), f- (2023), g- (2023), h- (2024), ch- (2024), i- (2024), j- (2024)

Articles:

  • TVRDÁ, Karla (2023): Pražské předjaří perspektivou mediálních dialogických sítí. Slovo a slovesnost, 84 (3), pp. 201–223.
  • TVRDÁ, Karla (2023): Booster. Naše řeč, 106 (2), pp. 133–139.
  • TVRDÁ, Karla (2019): „Komunistická kritika“ v dialozích Rudého práva. Studie z aplikované lingvistiky, 10 (1), pp. 66–83.
  • PABIAN, Petr – TVRDÁ, Karla – HÜNDLOVÁ, Lucie (2013): Jsou studující všemocní nebo bezmocní? Vládnutí v českém vysokém školství mezi studentokracií, akademickou oligarchií a manažerismem. Aula, 21 (1), pp. 68–83.
  • HÜNDLOVÁ, Lucie – PROVÁZKOVÁ, Karla – PABIAN, Petr (2010): Kdo vládne českým vysokým školám? Kvalitativní studie rozhodovacích mechanismů na dvou fakultách a jejich katedrách. Aula, 18 (4), pp. 2–16.

conference proceedings:

reviews and reports:

Conference participation:

  • Biennial of Czech Linguistics (17. – 20. 9. 2024, Prague), paper: Koncepce zpracování frazémů v Akademickém slovníku současné češtiny
  • International Conference on Sociolinguistics.3, (24. – 26. 8. 2022, Prague), paper: Media Dialogical Networks in History: The Case of the Former Czechoslovakia of the 1950s
  • Linguistics Prague (10. – 12. 4. 2014, Prague), paper: Mediální dialogické sítě v československém socialistickém tisku

Membership in scholarly and specialized societies, committees and institutional bodies:

  • Jazykovědné sdružení České republiky

Editorial Work:

  • 2008–2012 Executive Editor of the journal Aula – Journal for Higher Education and Science Policy (Centre for Higher Education Studies)

Teaching:

2007–2012 The Language School of the Capital City of Prague with Accreditation for State Language Examinations

  • Czech for Foreigners